#lithone

Dear Godly Generality,

In realities where Primus incarnates as a planet, he is known to many species:

Lithonians aware of Cybertronian spiritual beliefs refer to him using epithets such as "Diamond Marble" or "Holy Gemstone".

The Junkions have incorporated Primus into their own syncretic pantheon, alongside other spiritual figures such as Weirrall, Thor, Frijoles, and ALF.

The Ammonites considered Primus to be a lesser god in comparison to their deity Quadrus, roughly four times the size of Cybertron and able to combine with other planets.

The opening scene of the movie shows the audience the lives of the Lithones. The adults talking and doing science while the children are laughing and playing, not knowing their species and planet would be destroy by Unicron.

The writers could have just made the entire species having been created as adults and not reproduce (at least not the same way humans can), but they decided to show how dark and serious the movie is going to be by showing Unicron eating the whole planet along its people, which includes the Lithone children.

Requesting: list of known robotic planets.

I'm going to assume you mean "covered entirely in metal" or "having a lackluster enough native biosphere" for this one. Please note that a good number of these still have some organic life.

Acadeimos

Baird

Caminus

Combatron

Cybertron

Chitaur

Daebola

Elonia

Elysia

Galvan B

Gigantion

Junkion

Knerax Minor

Krok-Viirk

Lithone

Lucifar

Musuumei

Mars

Mechanus

Mondas

Saimea III

Neutronia

Olterhex

Opulus

Palifex

Paradron

Paryadisou

Prion

Velocitron

Zi

Zoidstar

What happened to Superion and the other Combiners in the Aligned Continuity?

Dear Continued Combiner,

Tragically, Superion met his end during the final Decepticon attack on the Ark that immediately preceded Optimus Prime’s arrival on Earth; when Slingshot sacrificed himself so that Optimus and his innermost confidants could escape the doomed ship, Superion died with him. The remaining members of the combiner team had little time to process the loss of their teammate, as their flight-capable alternate modes made them some of the only Cybertronians aboard capable of carrying their teammates to safety.

As the remaining Ark survivors dispersed to a hundred remote worlds to dig in, regroup, and rebuild, so too did the Aerialbots attempt to find a way forward. Despite their best efforts to keep moving forward as a team, their shared loss and grief eventually drove them apart; with no way to replicate the advanced combination technology that had once allowed them to form Superion, the team slowly drifted apart into new lives, each trying to process the loss in their own way.

Skydive found some semblance of peace on the planet Lithone, where he exchanged soldiering for the quiet life of an academic; in exchange for safe harbor from the Cybertronian war, he lent his extensive knowledge of his species’ military history to the expansive Lithonian archives.

Air Raid and Fireflight became mercenaries for hire, plying their trade on the galactic rim—Fireflight maintained some sense of honor, but this code of ethics would lead to his end when he crossed paths with the notorious ex-Decepticon clan known only as the Ronin. Air Raid’s increasingly ferocious tactics led him straight into the employ of the notorious Lord Gyconi, where he brutalized his way up the ranks until he became the crime lord’s top enforcer.

But then!!!! It never says that the Lithones also suffered the same fate as their planet or the movie. So now I have a new headcanon the Lithones are all alive and enjoying their new planet.

Hmm. It's possible, I suppose—but I would expect the opposite effect. I have actually been working on a new suite of metaphysical techniques, refined from some of Alpha Trion's most indulgent theories and Liege Maximo's most audacious ploys, to expand my power and influence over realities at the periphery of the multiverse. My ambition is without limit: I will span the entirety of existence, I will span the entirety of evolution. In backwards elseworlds, lithic cults carve my likeness from stone. Primates stir awake, and find a stranger's name on their vile lips—my name. I set the continuum into alignment, my unseen hand guiding symmetry across generations of interstellar conflict, moving the very stars into patterns—all to catch the eyes of higher-dimensional beings. And when they gaze, I am not the first to blink.

My loyal followers spread the bad word. Across the multiverse, structures of thought emerge that resemble my own, my rhetoric, my belief, my consciousness... it expands. These... hhrrrargh...... imposters do not know it yet—in wearing my face, pretending at Galvatron, they invite their own doom. The more closely they approximate me, the more easily I step into their shoes. Entire universes scatter before me, but their fates are sealed—they cannot deny me entry. I am already here.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

One of the members of The Rebirth Hive looks exactly like Lithone, the victim of Unicron, is there a connection to them?

Dear Headmaster Helper,

Before the world of Lithone was devoured by Unicron, its society was structured around the myth of the "scientist-hero" who eliminated the global conflicts of alien species through science and logic. One such "Metal Hero" journeyed to Nebulos and found Zarak and his band of tyrants on the verge of defeat. Mistaking them for victims, the Lithonian hero bestowed upon them the ability to control machines with their minds, enabling them to rebuild their society. Their organic bodies gradually became useless, and they were forced to transfer consciousness to drone bodies, using Lithonian forms as a template. Upon binary bonding with the Decepticons, their original organic forms finally perished. The Lithonians would never live to see the results of this tragic error, but later on, Cerebros pondered whether even this error was part of the will of Vector Sigma.